Election reforms in Germany
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The Germans have begun voting for a memorable election that will decide who will replace Angela Merkel as Europe’s largest economy chancellor.
A recent published survey shows that the results of the race on Sunday will be very close to our focus, with the CDU / CSU on the right eating forward of the left of the Center for Social Democrats. The majority of voters remain unelected.
The SPD has been voting with about 25-26%, ahead of the CDU / CSU with 22-25%, the Greens with 16-17% and the Free Democrats with 10.5-12%.
Many demonstrators expect elections to take place in Germany the first three-party agreement, concerning CDU / CSU, Greens and FDP or SPD, Greens and FDP.
Merkel’s departure It came from a political crisis 16 years later when the chancellor left a major role in European leadership. Sunday’s poll is the first time in German history after the war that a chancellor who did not stand for election.
Olaf Scholz poses for a photo in Potsdam. His lead in research has diminished in recent days © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
Focusing on the personalities of Merkel’s successors has helped the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, Germany’s finance minister and deputy chancellor for the past three years. He is best known by voters as the man who led the German economy through the coronavirus epidemic.
Germans do not know exactly who they want: Armin Laschet of the CDU / CSU, ambassador of industrial government in North Rhine-Westphalia; and Annalena Baerbock of the Greens, a 40-year-old MP with no public knowledge.
Their campaigns have been damage by gaffes which affected the votes of their parties. Laschet was caught laughing at the camera in July on a trip to another area in western Germany that was affected by the tragedy summer flooding, when Baerbock was accused of writing pieces of a book he published in June and compiling his CV.
Angela Merkel and Armin Laschet in Aachen Saturday. The Chancellor has been involved in the project in an effort to strengthen the support of its central CDU © Martin Meissner / AP
Merkel campaigned Saturday near Laschet in her hometown of Aachen. The Chancellor wanted to reduce the visibility of the campaign, but was pressured very active participation the turnout for his party’s election dropped.
Speaking in Aachen, Merkel praised the Laschet government in North Rhine-Westphalia, its commitment to EU unity and its ability to “build bridges and take people with them”.
Laschet warned that the SPD vote would open the way to the left, the “red flags” by the Greens and Die Linke factions, a strong left-wing group that seeks to defeat Nato. He said the success of the SPD would bring “psychological tests” in economic terms.
Speaking in Potsdam, near Berlin, on Saturday, Scholz promised lower wages, more stable pensions, cheaper housing, more anti-carbon resources and better digital infrastructure. “The next decade is about to start again, and I’m making a lot of money,” he said.
Baerbock also campaigned in central Potsdam. “One-fourth of the voters were not elected,” he told ARD TV. “That’s why I’m out here until the last minute – because it makes a big difference [the Greens] is in the next Bundestag, which deals with climate change and the reconstruction of this country. ”
Christian Lindner, The FDP leader, warned that the Greens want “government and extra legislation”.
“The FDP represents the opposite,” he said.
The significant difference between the Greens and the FDP points to what might happen difficult conversations making a pact after Sunday’s election.